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Chevron posts mixed Q1 results, as sales miss offsets big earnings beat

Chevron is roughly flat in pre-market trading after posting mixed Q1 results, as investors wonder whether elevated oil prices and crack spreads will continue to buoy earnings in the quarters to come.

The key numbers:

Q1 revenue of $48.6 billion (estimates $50.6 billion)
Adjusted earnings per share of $1.41 (estimates $0.90)
Production of 3.86 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, (estimate 3.8 million)

The upside surprise in Chevron’s upstream (production) business more than offset underwhelming results in its downstream (refined) division.

Chevron said earnings would have been better if not for “unfavorable timing effects” totaling about $2.9 billion, which included mark-to-market losses on derivatives and inventory-accounting impacts, weighing on reported earnings.

“Despite heightened geopolitical volatility and related supply disruptions, Chevron delivered solid first quarter performance,” CEO Mike Wirth said, pointing to strong US operations and production growth following the integration of Hess.

Ahead of these results, Chevron has also cautioned that supply may take time to respond to higher prices. Mike Wirth also said in a CBS interview that restoring production is “not like turning on a faucet,” noting it can take “weeks and months, in some cases years” to bring disrupted fields and infrastructure back online.

The results also come as CEO Mike Wirth met with President Donald Trump and other energy executives this Tuesday to discuss potential steps to stabilize oil markets in the event that shipments through the Strait of Hormuz remain limited.

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Moderna beats Q1 estimates and reaffirms full-year guidance

Moderna rose in premarket trading after it reported earnings results that beat Wall Street expectations and reaffirmed its full-year guidance.

For the first three months of 2026, the company reported:

Adjusted loss per share at $3.40, less than the $4.45 per share loss analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.
Revenue of $352 million, more than the $236 million the Street was expecting. About 80% of that came from outside the US, the company said.

For the full year in 2026, the company still expects:

Revenue to grow 10%. Currently, analysts are penciling in $2 billion in 2026 sales, which is about a 5% increase.

Moderna was tapped by the US government to quickly develop a vaccine for COVID-19 in 2020, a product that has seen its sales plummet, but remains its main source of revenue.

Now, the company sees growth on the horizon this year, after the European Commission approved its combination flu COVID-19 vaccine for adults ‌50 years and older. Indeed, Moderna said a growing share of its revenue is coming from international markets.

The company has had a harder time getting approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, though the agency said in February that it would reconsider its stand-alone flu vaccine.

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ExxonMobil Q1 results beat estimates as increased oil production in Guyana offset disruptions in the Middle East

Exxon rose early Friday after reporting better-than-expected first-quarter results as increased oil production in Guyana helped offset disruptions in the Middle East.

The largest US energy company by revenue reported:

Q1 revenue of $85.1 billion vs. analysts’ $81.13 billion consensus expectation, per FactSet.
Adjusted earnings per share of $1.16 vs. the $0.98 analysts had predicted, according to FactSet. That was down from $1.76 a year earlier.
Global production of 4.6 million oil-equivalent barrels per day, roughly in line with Wall Street expectations. Guyana set a new quarterly production record of more than 900,000 gross barrels of oil per day, the company said.

Exxon Mobil had previously flagged that the Mideast war would disrupt its operations. In an SEC filing in April, the company reported that operations in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — which accounted for roughly 20% of its energy production in 2025 — had been upended by the war, saying that it expected the disruptions would cut energy production by roughly 6% in the first quarter, compared to Q4 2025.

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Atlassian soars after strong beat and a hike to its 2026 guidance, blowing a hole in the software AI bear thesis

Atlassian shares skyrocketed 23% in premarket trading on Friday after the embattled workflow software firm hiked its FY2026 guidance and reported better-than-expected revenue and profit results for its fiscal third quarter.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, the company reported:

Revenue of $1.79 billion, up 32% year-over-year and topping Wall Street expectations of $1.695 billion (compiled by Bloomberg).
Adjusted EPS of $1.75 per share, more than 30% ahead of analyst estimates for $1.34 of adjusted earnings.

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes noted that “Our strong Q3 results show the power of our strategy in action, with total revenue growing 32% year-over-year to $1.8 billion, as customers sign bigger, longer-term commitments, and connect their teams and workflows on our AI-powered platform,” the company also hiked its fiscal year 2026 outlook, ending June 30. Atlassian now expects:

Total revenue year-over-year growth to be approximately 24%, up from 22% expected in the previous quarter.
Higher revenue growth for its key businesses, with Cloud now expected to grow 26.5%, Data Center 21.5%, and Marketplace and other 6.5%, compared to the year before.

The latest jump is a sigh of relief not only for Atlassian — which has seen its shares fall more than 50% in 2026 — but also the wider software complex at large, which has been under relentless pressure from an AI-spooked selloff in recent months. While this certainly won't kill the "SAASpocalypse" thesis altogether — the idea that the moat of software businesses will disappear in an age of vibe-coding — it may blunt some of the concerns, or at the very least push the timeline of any anticipated disruption back a few quarters.

Strong earnings from Five9, and even Reddit, are also helping the software landscape this morning, with a number of high profile SAAS stocks in the green, includingHubspot, GitLab, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Figma.

Earlier in March, Atlassian announced it was laying off about one-tenth of its staff “to self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales, while strengthening our financial profile.”

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Reddit rises after reporting strong Q1 numbers and guidance

Social media platform Reddit climbed late Thursday after guiding for stronger sales in the current quarter and posting Q1 numbers that were better than analysts had expected. Reddit reported:

Q1 earnings per share of $1.01 vs. analysts’ expectations of $0.57.
Revenue of $663.4 million vs. expectations for $607.7 million.
126.8 million “daily active uniques” vs. the 125.9 million expected.
Sales guidance for Q2 2026 of between $715 million and $725 million (midpoint $720 million) vs. analysts’ estimates of $710.9 million.

After surging 40% last year, Reddit has struggled since last September, when it hit a record closing high of $270.71. The stock closed Thursday roughly 45% below that level.

The drop is not so much because the outlook for sales and earnings at the company have weakened dramatically. (In fact, Wall Street analysts have lifted their sales estimates for the next 12 months by about 30% since then, and raised earnings estimates by about 70%.)

It’s that the price-to-earnings multiple on the stock has plunged from over 90x expected earnings over the next 12 months to about 32x, suggesting that sentiment around the stock — which had been something of a favorite for retail traders last year — has ebbed significantly.

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Roblox craters after Q1 daily active users miss estimates while management slashes full-year guidance

The bottom is falling out of Roblox in postmarket trading after the video game company’s Q1 daily active users fell short of estimates and management cut full-year guidance.

For the period ended March 31, the company reported:

Net revenue of $1.44 billion (compared to analyst estimates for $1.42 billion).
Daily active users of 132 million (estimate: 143.8 million).

The real pain, though, comes from the reduced full-year outlook, with management lowering their view for sales to between $5.87 billion and $6.14 billion, down from a range of $6.02 billion to $6.29 billion. In other words, the old base case for sales is now their best-case scenario.

The firm also cut its outlook for 2026 bookings (money spent on in-game currency known as Robux) to a range of $7.33 billion to $7.6 billion (previously $8.28 billion to $8.55 billion).

Analysts were way off-side, having expected full-year revenue of $6.6 billion and bookings of $8.4 billion.

The stock hit its lowest level since October 2024 in the after-hours session. It’s been languishing near its 52-week low after halving over the past six months, with analysts wondering whether the kid-focused company has a plan to stay out of legal trouble, monetize, and “age up” in the years ahead.

Roughly one-third of the video game company’s users are under 13. This month, Roblox announced expanded controls for parents and the rollout of Roblox Kids (for ages 5 to 8) and Roblox Select (for ages 9 to 15) this June. These launches are one part of its multitiered safety plan, which includes third-party biometric scans — something kids have been expertly outsmarting.

Roblox’s decision to cut its guidance for 2026 was “largely safely-related,” Roblox’s C-suite said on Thursday’s earnings call. As Roblox started age-gating, CFO Naveen Chopra explained, many users lost access to intercommunications on the platform — resulting in a lack of engagement and daily active users, as well as negative App Store reviews (which management also blamed on running annoying ads).

David Baszucki, Roblox CEO:

“We have seen a reduction in App Store rating, and we believe this may be contributing to a reduction in organic sign ups that typically flow from app stores.”

Naveen Chopra, Roblox CFO:

“We do know that the fact that we had more sign up headwinds over the last few months is going to put pressure on bookings over the remainder of the year.”

Over the past month, the company has also importantly settled with several states over lawsuits that allege the company failed to implement proper security to protect children from adults on the site, which showed up in the company’s quarterly bill.

The platform paid out $1.5 billion to creators in 2025, and the company overall remains in the red.

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